Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-01-27

Egypt has another prophet.

Austria is preparing for war with all
her might.
Oshkosh claims to have a woman lod
years old.
August Spies. the Chicago anarchist,
is to be hung.
The Germans are moving troops over
on the French frontier.
The Alaska gold fever is setting in Wig.
orously in the States.
The election in Germany will be car
ried by the government.
Gov. Pierce recommends the eodifca.
ton Of the laws of Dakota.
Religious revivals are reported ia pro-
gress all oyer the territory.
The big strike Of coal handlers east, is
in fair way for adjustment.
Ban Harrlson's chances for the senate
are somewhat under cloud.
Frank James the ex-bandit, is asretail
bootand shoe clerk in st. Louis.
1t Is not our needs that are generally
SO expensive. 1t is oar cravings.
Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, is tax
ing in the ice carnival at st. Paul.
The severe weather in Montana is des-
troying lots of cattle on the ranges.
Great suffering exists among cattle in
New Mexico, caused by the drouth,
The National Woman Suffrage Associ-
alton is now in session at Washington.
1t is said that our new governor will
appoint several officers from the Black
Hills.
There is, in the hands OF the Indians
OF Dakota, a total of 100000 acres of
land.
And now comes the centennial cele-
bration of the adoption of the constitu-
ton.
The Emperor of Austria wants TO visit
this country and take ride on our big
prairies.
A train is said. recently, TO have been
twenty-one days going from Fargo to
Bismarck.
The Afghan people are getting restless
again. 0fcourse Russia has had MOTH
ing TO do with it.
The debt OF the territory is five hun
bred and sixty-eight Thousand seven
hundred dollars.
The senatorial contests in Indiana and
New Jersey are disgrace TO both par
ties and to these states.
The passage of the inter state COM
merce bill will make it exceedingly tired
for watered railway stock.
The passage of the Dawes bin for the
opening of the Great Sioux Indian Res
ervstios, is very doubtful.
The Secretary Of the Interior is IN
clined 10 give capital chance ut the In
dian reservation coal fields.
Dakota is TO have colony of negroes
from the third and fourth congressional
districts of North Carolina,
1t costs twenty-eight cents to send a
bushel of wheat from Webster to Chica-
go-no prophet in that!
The legislature of the territory are de-
cidedly in favor of ripping things as far
as railroads are concerned.
Railway companies are GENERALLY be-
coming alive to the Importance of en-
ploying none but sober men.
1t is pSsposed by the Navy Depart
ment to construct twelve iron ships OF
war-mind, we said proposed"
The snarl between the United States
aud Canada, over the fishery question, is
becoming daily more complicated.
The Republicans of the House terrific
rial committee are preparing protest
against the treatment of Dakota.
A Charleston paper speaks Of IAN opel
as large as hens egg" We should
think it would be difficult to "set"
The senators who voted against the
interstate commerce bill are all from the
east except Standard Oil Payne, of Ohio.
There are AZ military reservations that
are to be abandoned Immediately. Fort
Sisseton is not included in the number.
IfDakota had another railway commits
sion we d stand poor chance to get our
wheet to Minneapolis for fifty cents a
bushel.
1t is claimed that a son of the late
prince imperial of France, has been
found in one of the provinces orstates of
that country.
The oldest inhabitant" strongly as
serts that we have had more continuous
ly cold weather than was ever before
known in the territory.
The average of the members of the
Dakota house is Al years; in the council
it is 80 y airs The Pioneer Press says
il is the youngest legislative body on the
globe.
The Huronite says that Gov. Church
will give the territory democratic adj
ministration. don't be alarmed about
that. He wont honor death bed conver-
sions either.
The Huron Land District is said to
have done more business through its of
fee than any other in the United States
The land in the district is almost all la
ken up by settlers.
The commissioners provided for in the
inter state commerce bill are to be APP
pointed Immediately, and operations Of
the bin. This will be sal disappoi Mt
TO some defeated congressman.
How it would amuse the grandfathers
to note that, with all the modern inn
provements." the best thing science can
10 for ventilation is to recommend the
restoration of the old open fireplace.
In examining Senator Logan's papers
recently, John A, Logan, Jr., discovered
a mysterious packet, which, on inyesti
ton. proved to be plan for building
at Washington to be used as school for
the education of the sons of veterans.
What spectacle. The governor of
Co., 600 people waiting around the legis-
lative halls and gubernatorial rooms at
Bismarck for two weeks TO be confirmed
as governor by power thousands of
miles away, and appointed by man who
was never within thousand miles of
Dakota.